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3.302947 | 2.459861 | -1 | By Marilyn Stasio Published: October 03, 1999 With HARD TIME
(Delacorte, $24.95), her first V. I. Warshawski novel in five
years, Sara Paretsky lightens up on the political oratory and
goes back to the basics that shot this terrific series to the
top of its class: an expertly plotted story drawn from the
legally trained author's specialty field of industrial
espionage; a topical issue to give it gravity and the moral
perspective to make it matter; a playing field of flint-hearted
villains impervious to these higher values; and a hero with the
righteous anger and the street-fighter skills to make these guys
eat dirt. The volatile action takes off when Warshawski,
Paretsky's high-minded (and hot-tempered) Chicago private eye,
stops to help an accident victim and is railroaded on a
manslaughter charge. Chin out, V. I. battles a cover-up
conspiracy that she traces to a multimedia entertainment
conglomerate and the powerful security agency that guards its
secrets. But what does a rich man's Philippine nanny have |
-3.832006 | 2.83576 | 47 | Difference Between Similar Terms and Objects Difference Between
Implantation Bleeding and Period Implantation Bleeding vs
Period Females who are sexually active are oftentimes confused
and nervous over whether vaginal bleeding is from a menstrual
period or from implantation bleeding. Â For a woman who is
unprepared for pregnancy, the sight of blood could be
implantation bleeding confused as a period. Â Â A period is
another word for menstruation. Â Menstruation is the female
body’s way of shedding the lining of the uterus, which occurs
every 28 days for a non-pregnant woman. Â Implantation bleeding
occurs when the egg moves into the uterus and through the
lining, which for some women can cause bleeding. Â Women who
experience implantation bleeding are pregnant, even though blood
may be confused for a period or a miscarriage. Periods are
common in women after they reach puberty and last until a woman
reaches menopause. Â A period stops while a woman is pregnant,
and this is called amenorrhoea. Â Periods ca |
2.908316 | 1.856248 | 19 | Autumn's Concerto (Part 1, 1-9)(to be continued)(English
Subtitled - Malaysia Version) CODE: twd0141 [Contact us for a
price] Some people's life is smooth and successful, but some
have to stop or slow their steps to solve difficulties in order
to move to next step. They may miss the view outside the window,
or miss the one beside them. No one knows who is the one to
accompany him (her) to the last stop. Could the lovers truly
accompany each other till the end of life? "Guangxi" - who
always picked up by the driver to the destination, unable to
decide his own life, surreal and supercilious, is the only
inheritor of ShengDe Group. It seems that he owns everything,
but actually he is the poorest in the world. No love, no laugh,
no expectations, and no heartbeat. Not knowing how to care and
give until his encounter with Mucheng, and the gifts left by his
leaving father become the unbreakable linkage between him and
Mucheng. "Mucheng" - a girl doesn't know where to stop and
leave the bus and dare not to fal |
3.128903 | 5.329812 | 2 | Project V13 beta to kick off in 2012 Monday, 25th January 2010
13:55 GMT By Johnny Cullen It comes as the firm also
announced it has signed new agreements with developer Masthead
Studios over the title. The studio joined development early
last year. The MMO is rumoured to be that based in the Fallout
universe, although Interplay is currently disputing a legal
battle with Bethesda over the IP. If it wins the court case,
they are free to release the MMO as they have the rights to
develop the title, but only if the MMO in development at
Bethesda isn’t Fallout. Which it ain’t. It’s Elder Scrolls,
which has been in development since 2006, but missed a reveal
last year. Thanks, Videogamer. Breaking news Sign in to post
a comment. 1. scuz vault 13 anyone? #1 4 years ago
2. ybfelix What a fitting date for a post-apocalyptic title
:) #2 4 years ago 3. ShiroGamer a thing being
confirmed for 2 years down !!! #3 4 years ago 4. airdom
Anything Fallout interests me. |
-2.42644 | 2.101803 | 26 | What to look out for when picking your dog Some people believe
that dogs with longer tails run faster. It is difficult to make
this measurement yourself, so you may need to “guesstimate” the
tail length. Or perhaps use a protractor and use “maths” to
triangulate the tail length. Before the dogs race they are
taken out to a fenced off area by the track for the “stir-up”.
This is where they watch the bunny race around the track to get
them excited. It is also when some plucky dogs take a toilet
break. Some punters believe that dogs that have relived
themselves at this time run faster. This practice is not limited
to the dog world it is a known fact that Usain Bolt routinely
“drops a deuce” moments before he runs the hundred metres. It’s
all about the bitches Boy dogs are called dogs. Girl dogs are
called bitches. Some punters love the bitches mostly because
they like saying the word. Bitches are typically smaller than
the dogs, which may cause some less experienced punters to write
them off. But what the |
-0.385534 | 0.305303 | 6 | Accused Florida Facebook killer pleads not guilty to murder
charge Miami HeraldDecember 4, 2013 MIAMI -- Derek Medina,
the South Miami man who fatally shot his wife and posted a photo
of her bloody body on Facebook, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to
first-degree murder. Prosecutors last week, in a long-expected
move, presented Medina’s case to a grand jury, which indicted
the 31-year-old for first-degree murder. He is now eligible for
the death penalty, although a prosecutor told the judge
Wednesday that the office has not determined whether they will
seek execution for the August killing of Jennifer Alfonso, 27.
Medina shocked South Florida when he shot Alfonso after a heated
argument in their South Miami townhouse kitchen, then
immediately posted a photo of her body along with an admission
that started: “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing
my wife.’’ Miami-Dade police initially charged him with second-
degree murder with a firearm, but it was long expected that
prosecutors would elevate th |
3.054255 | -4.487123 | 38 | EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.— Early in the third quarter, with the
Cowboys in town and the Giants down 20 points, the lights at the
New Meadowlands Stadium went out. Ramses Barden (13) couldn't
hold onto the ball in the end zone during the second quarter of
the Giants' loss. European Pressphoto Agency The building went
dark, the scoreboards went blank and the Giants would have been
a whole lot happier if they'd just stayed that way. Because on
this Sunday night, the brand new $1.7 billion stadium wasn't the
only thing that lost power. With a chance to take control of
the NFC East, the Giants were absolutely, thoroughly and
completely pounded, 33-20, by the supposedly hapless Cowboys.
The winners of five straight lost to the losers of five
straight. The team considered by some the NFC's best through the
season's midway point looked horrid against a team gauged one of
the NFL's worst through the midway point. Giants tackle Barry
Cofield needed only one word to sum up the result: "Disgusted."
"They came out with m |
-0.836983 | 8.740294 | -1 | Difference between MS Outlook OST & PST files OST stands for
Offline Storage Tables. It is an offline folder created by MS
Outlook and MS Exchange to hold offline copies of whatever
exists in the Exchange server. To make it more simple to
understand, you can just call OST files as as local copy of your
Exchange mailbox. It is created when your emails are delivered
to your Outlook mailbox and will contain all your emails,
contacts, calender entries and tasks. Outlook has to be in
Cached mode for Offline folders to work. OST files allow you to
work even when you are not connected to your exchange server
(i.e. when you are offline) and then, when you get online it
will synchronize itself with your exchange server mailbox. On
the other hand, PST stands for Personal Storage Tables. These
are also known as personal folders or personal files. It is not
created by Outlook or the Exchange server. Instead, you (or any
user, for that matter) can create it to store all your emails,
contacts, calendar entries etc. These |
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0.732408 | 1.489069 | -1 | Complex Singularities Adventures in Thinking Outside the Tower
random header image Referral: On the Dangers of Focus on the
Family Teaching Sex Ed This article about an amazing open
letter from 17-year-old high school student Agatha Tan to her
high school principal shows not only the dangers on letting
Focus on the Family teach sexual education workshops but also
the amazing resilience of youth with respect to attempts by
institutions specifically and deliberately trying to limit their
knowledge. As an interesting side note, in her original letter,
she mentions that another student noted that “polyamorous
individuals” were one the groups ill-considered by FotF
rhetoric, a point that was shut down: When someone else tried
to raise that the facilitator’s views were too narrow and that
they failed to consider, for instance, LGBTQ or polyamorous
individuals, he effectively shut her down by saying that her
views were not what the audience wanted to listen to and that
perhaps she could remain quiet for now and |
4.35359 | 2.714168 | 5 | It seems quite apt that “The Best Man Holiday,” a film about a
reunion of old friends, feels just like going to an actual
reunion. In ways both bad and good. A reunion, you see, is only
fun if you went to the school and recognize your friends. It's
certainly not fun if you didn't, but were dragged along anyway.
In that case, you'll likely end up drinking white wine in a
paper cup alone by a wall, watching everyone else get silly.
Likewise, “The Best Man Holiday,” Malcom D. Lee's sequel to his
(much better) 1999 “The Best Man,” will probably be fun and
pleasant for those who saw the first film. Those who didn't may
feel like they've been dragged to someone else's reunion. And
that's too bad, because the cast, reunited here, is largely
excellent, led by the ever-charismatic Taye Diggs as Harper, an
author with a fatal flaw: he can't seem to stop writing about
his friends and lovers. It's not the fault of the cast that
these characters seem less fully formed the second time around.
It's the fault of a script |
0.193143 | 8.127444 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × Iteration has already started, new
programmer joins the team, task X has already been estimated to
be 30 hours by a different developer. What is the best practice
in this situation? • new developer runs with the given
estimate (the idea being that any discrepancy will be corrected
for when velocity is calculated?) • new developer re-estimates
task? (if so, what if it's significantly higher and no longer
fits in the iteration?) • throw our hands up and go back to
waterfall? • something else entirely? share|improve this
question 3 Answers 3 up vote 5 down vote accepted What I say
is: New developer re-estimates the task. If it has to be moved
out of the iteration then it gets moved out. You don't know if
the new developer is going to be able or not to do it in the
time the original developer though it will take. And with agile
methodologies is the developer that does the work the one that
should say how long it will take. Furthermore, I would apply a
multiplier (how big |
-0.844403 | 10.350099 | 20 | Tell me more × I am trying to replicate the following Angular
UI example of a simple dialog with a close-button. However, I
cannot get the dialog parameter to be injected properly into my
dialog controller. The controllers looks like below (using
CoffeScript) angular.module('myApp', ['ui.bootstrap'])
angular.module('myApp').controller 'MyController', ($dialog,
$scope) -> $dialog.dialog().open('dialogTemplate',
'DialogController') angular.module('myApp').controller
'DialogController', ['$scope', 'dialog', ($scope, dialog) ->
$scope.close = -> dialog.close() See the Plunker for a live
version: Angular gives me the following error: Unknown
provider: dialogProvider <- dialog Any ideas on how the dialog-
parameter could be injected into DialogController, as is seen in
the docs example referred to above? I suspect this could have
something to do with CoffeeScript since I am fairly new to this
language, but it seems quite right when I look at the compiled
output. share|improve this question add commen |
-1.849846 | 1.93306 | -1 | August 11, 2010 Lottery Player Anonymously Donates $1,000 Prize
to Animal Shelter Story Photo audio icon If you won $1,000,
what would you do with the money? One animal-loving Missouri
Lottery player won a $1,000 prize and anonymously donated it to
the Dogwood Animal Shelter, 1075 Runabout Drive in Osage Beach,
on Aug. 6. The player, who wishes to remain unidentified,
purchased the winning "Mega MONOPOLY™" Scratchers ticket at
Gerbes, 1159 E. Highway 54, in Camdenton. The donation came as
an unexpected blessing to the no-kill shelter, which relies on
volunteers, fundraisers and community donations to remain in
operation. It was during a fundraising activity, a weekly bingo
game held in the facility’s community room, that shelter manager
Shawne Mitchell learned about the donation. "She (the bingo
chairperson) said, ’I have this ticket, and it was anonymously
donated,’" Mitchell began. "We’re talking and talking, and then
she goes, ’By the way, it’s $1,000!’"
When she shared the ne |
0.981777 | 5.163638 | -1 | Boeing is certainly no stranger to lasers of various sorts, and
it's now extending its expertise to the US Army, recently
snagging a $7 million contract to begin developing a truck-
mounted laser weapon system. From the sound of it, the system
appears to be not unlike a mobile version of the still-in-
development Skyguard laser defense system, with it designed to
shoot down rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds.
According to Boeing, the laser cannon would be mounted on a
Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (not exactly as pictured
above) and, if the Army approves, could end up costing a cool
$50 million for a "significant component" of the system to be
built and tested. [Via Slashdot] Boeing developing truck-
mounted laser cannons for US Army |
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4.203738 | 3.608468 | -1 | Thursday, March 16, 2006 Our First Look at John Stewart I
wasn't going to keep doing this, but the yellow background is
nagging at me. Anywhere else, I'd accept that it's a random
color. But this is a panel found in Green Lantern. For 30 years,
this was the sole weakness of Green Lantern. Their powers were
unable to affect anything yellow (Please note the date on that
linked post). Yellow is not cavalierly thrown around in this
franchise. It's usually there as a means of hurting the main
character. It's been there as a mistake, which made Superfriends
interesting ("Everytime Green Lantern's ring affects yellow,
take a shot"). Sometimes, though, its symbolic. It's the color
of the ground on an alien planet, the background of choice for a
villain, or the color of an ex-girlfriend's scarf. It can be
representative of limitations, weaknesses, vulnerabilities,
restrictions, or fears. This is the first time we get to see
John. He is about to be inducted into the Green Lantern Corps,
and he is surrounded by yell |
2.082049 | 2.391846 | -1 | Dear Google…. Dear Google, Let me just begin this letter by
saying you are pretty spectacular. I once read that you handle
something like over 1 billion searches per day. That’s mental!
And I’ve just moved to London, so as you can imagine I have had
to lean on you a fair bit of late. For example without you I
would have no idea which tubes to catch or why all my English
friends look at me like a complete pervert when I direct them to
the total ‘spunk’ standing at the bar. Also, if you didn’t
exist, the rice in my curry the other night probably would have
been gluggy and that cork most definitely would still be stuck
in that 3 pound bottle of plonk. You’ve really saved my skin
over here, so please, keep my overall appreciation for you in
mind as you read on. The reason I am writing to you is I do
have one tiny request. I was just wondering if you could maybe
relinquish your hold, just slightly, on all that is correct and
factual in the world? You see, I’m just finding it really hard
to get people to en |
0.373808 | 10.308713 | -1 | search and Copy pest project Job Description This project
requires a person or a team of people to find missing data and
enter them into our spreadsheets. We will provide data in the
format of hotel name, address and country in an excel document.
You will have to find and fill in the missing data which will be
telephone number (with international dialling code), email
address and URL. Please see document attached to gain an idea
of what is required. Each row is considered as 1 piece of data
1 piece of data = Hotel Telephone Number + Hotel Email Address +
Hotel URL Total data will be in the region of 300,000 to
400,000 Please quote your price for the entire project. see my
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-0.471566 | 1.784809 | -1 | The flight time from New York, New York to Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico is: 5 hours, 20 minutes From: reverse locations Change
your flying speed: mph knots take-off and landing:
minutes Calculate the flight time between you and your friends:
Flight map from New York, NY to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Flying time from New York, NY to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico The
total flight duration from New York, NY to Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico is 5 hours, 20 minutes. The calculation of flight time
is based on the straight line flight distance from New York, NY
to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico ("as the crow flies"), which is about
2,419 miles or 3 893 kilometers. Your trip begins in New York,
New York. It ends in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Your flight
direction from New York, NY to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico is West
(-109 degrees from North). find a flight to Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico New York, New York City: New York State: New York
Country: United States Category: cities Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
City: Cabo San Lucas Region: Baja C |
0.626164 | 5.500546 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × Refraction: light changes direction of
propagation when entering a material with a different refractive
index. enter image description here Does the direction of
propagation of light change sharply and almost instantaneously
(as shown in the diagram) or smoothly? share|improve this
question 2 Answers 2 up vote 2 down vote accepted I don't
understand the down vote on the OP. In order for Snell's Law
($n_1 \sin{\theta_1} = n_2\sin{\theta_2}$) to be valid, certain
conditions have to be met. Usually we assume the conditions are
met, and draw the simple diagrams such as yours. These represent
idealizations of real situations. For example, the ideal
interface is discrete, changes abruptly, and is perfectly flat,
and the materials are homogenous. At a microscopic level, all
real interfaces consist of meetings of molecules, so are not
discrete, abrupt, nor flat, and materials are not homogeneous
(they are made of atoms and molecules). However, from a
macroscopic perspective, if we don |
1.444936 | 2.096686 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × What is the difference between empezar
and comenzar? Is one more formal than the other? share|improve
this question add comment 4 Answers up vote -4 down vote
accepted Empezar, as radpin explained is related to events.
Like the beginning of history or the beginning of a work
project. Comenzar is more personalized towards a subject. Though
they mean the same, we spanish speakers tend to use each in
those contexts. share|improve this answer Comenzar un proyecto
is absolutely valid. Why do you state the contrary on your
answer? – c.p. Dec 28 '13 at 22:52 I am basica lly stating the
most used, not the valid c.p. – Quintrala Dec 30 '13 at 5:23
The point is that, what your are writing is false: you don't say
empezar un proyecto more often than comenzar un proyecto as you
stated. – c.p. Dec 31 '13 at 16:12 add comment Absolutely
interchangeable as radpin states in his answer. I agree.
However, I'd add that empezar is a little more common than
comenzar. Actually Ngrams says in writt |
3.20494 | -4.047297 | 38 | June 27, 2013 Rivals100 OL names leader, talks about FSU visit
Rivals100 OL Demetrius Knox recently set his official dates and
one of them is to Florida State. What does does the No. 1 rated
guard hope to see during his visit? |
-1.229875 | -1.11165 | 63 | Monday, December 14, 2009 Wow, Charles Jaco is a REAL dirtbag
journalist The old video shows him in a sand turtle and talking
about the Iraq war made the rounds from Youtube; I pointed it
out back in April; Bill has made mention of it as well; Jamie
Allman made a joke about it (it was him who found it), and even
Pat Buchanan wrote about it: Video at the link. Ooooh, and
Jaco is MAD, downright LIVID! Etc, Etc., threaten, bluster. Wow,
in addition to being thin-skinned, Jaco apparently has no clue
about protected speech and fair use. We have Climategate going
on and a deficit on the run but Jaco would rather waste money
making a mockery of himself across the Internet. It does make
for interesting speculation as to whose cases would be more
successful: the men and women activists who were smeared by Jaco
or a reporter known for smearing people on air who ironically
takes liberty with others asking questions or making
observations about a video in which he’s admitted to
participating. The old adage was "Do |
-2.339218 | -0.435779 | 36 | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Did the Dems Know What They Were Doing?
In light of the passage of the Democratic healthcare reform
package, many on the Right are sitting back smugly thinking
Pelosi and company naively delivered the House right into the
Republican's hands. While it may be true that the House will
possibly lose many of its Democratic members come November, I
doubt the Democratic leadership was oblivious to this before it
took the healthcare vote. What we are dealing with here is a
movement that disregards public opinion no matter the
opposition. If they were merely taking principled stands,
defying what Alexis de Tocqueville called "the tyranny of the
majority," this would be something to admired. Unfortunately,
the passage of Obamacare has less to do with principle and more
to do with a tyrannical power grab by the federal government and
the Democratic leadership. If principle is involved at all, it
manifests itself only in the belief that the state is king and
liberty is a disposable commodity. |
-1.687788 | 2.618691 | 54 | this weekAnimals with Jobs February 4, 2005 The Hidden Lives
of Sloths Symbiosis in slow motion The author with Buttercup,
a three-toed sloth There are times—quite a few of them, for
better or worse—when I’m confronted with evidence that something
I’ve believed (or assumed) to be the case for years is simply
wrong. These occasions can be a source of embarrassment, such as
the time a few years ago when a friend pointed out to me that I
always misspelled the word “embarrassed.” Being someone who
takes the use of language seriously, this came as quite a blow
to me. Most of the time, however, I greet epiphanies of mistaken
assumptions with equanimity, if not pleasure. I love to learn,
and most learning requires a certain amount of unlearning. I
had several such experiences in rapid succession while visiting
a wildlife sanctuary in Costa Rica. Aviarios del Caribe, located
near Cahuita on the Caribbean coast, is a sloth rehabilitation
center. Sloths that are injured or orphaned are brought here and
cared for, |
3.43146 | 2.05128 | -1 | I'll never trust Howard Stern on etymology again. Here goes:
30 June 1972, LIFE, pg. 73, cols. 1-4. "The many faces of the
No. 1 model in the world." Evelyn Kuhn is "the highest-paid
model in the world," but NO 17 August 1975, NY TIMES MAGAZINE,
pg. 12, cols. 1-2. "'I'm the biggest model, period'/Great face,
great figure, great personality, the supergirl next door
insists she's more than just the biggest _black_ model in the
business." Alas, Beverly Johnson is merely "supergirl." She
states that she aspires to become a "millionette." 30 June
1975, NEWSWEEK, pg. 41, col. 2. "Supermodel _Margaux
Hemingway_...." 3 November 1975, NEWSWEEK, pg. 46, col. 1. "A
6-foot 1-inch supermodel shouldn't have to go to such lengths to
stop traffic, so what was fashion star _Veruschka_ up to,
perched on a chair in the middle of Manhattan's Fifth
Avenue...." 13 March 1978, NEWSWEEK, pg. 57, col. 3. "But
others see Shelley (Hack) up there with the supermodels, and
Columbia Pictures has decided a pinup poster |
-0.576107 | 7.39072 | 8 | Text size Microsoft Israel has agreed to lease 100,000 square
meters at the Gav Yam (Bayside) center's buildings 5 and 6 in
Herzliya Pituach. The company will be taking possession when
their construction is completed, sometime in early 2008/
Microsoft Israel will be using the complex as its new R&D
headquarters in central Israel. It will be maintaining its
northern R&D center in Matam, Haifa. Building 5 will have 9,500
square meters and Building 6 will have 5,500. The standard of
construction is supposed to be superior. Microsoft Israel will
be occupying most of the space in each edifice. The company has
also leased 300 parking spaces. Bayside declined to say how
much Microsoft Israel will be paying. Its prices for Herzliya
Pituach are known to be in the range of $15-18 per square meter. |
2.776213 | 4.600749 | -1 | DR. DOOM Newer Older Daniel Goffin, Bruno Orbit, and
40 other people added this photo to their favorites. 1.
Mint2008 29 months ago | reply Vic' is right. It's far
more imaginative and funny to plot to dominate the world.
2. Saulo Cruz 29 months ago | reply I think he does not
have many friends ... 3. hungryghoast 29 months ago | reply
"the problem of leisure, what to do for pleasure" 4.
jackszwergold [deleted] 29 months ago | reply “So this is
how the 1% amuse themselves!” |
-2.50341 | -0.311744 | 36 | It was a key Democratic demand but party leaders abandoned a
surtax on millionaires to finance a payroll tax holiday
Wednesday night in return for, well, nothing, as of yet.
Yesterday, top Senate Democrats and President Obama met to
consider dropping a 1.9 percent surtax on people earning more
than $1 million per year and ultimately decided to abandon it.
In response, Michael Steel, spokesman for House speaker John
Boehner, told the AP "I don't think it's much of a concession.
It never had any chance of passing the Senate, let alone the
House." Some analysts last week predicted that a concession to
drop the surtax could be exchanged for the Republicans dropping
a provision to fast-track the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline but
Republicans gave no sign such a deal was in the
works. Update: Still no progress on the outlines of a plan but
Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell surprised reporters today telling
the Senate floor they are close to reconciling their
differences. Instead of cutting a deal, Roll Call reports |
4.229773 | -2.062471 | 64 | Poll: Jon Jones vs. Cain Velasquez Discussion in 'General MMA
discussion' started by imhungry4444, Dec 21, 2012. Who wins
this dream fight? Jon Jones 11 vote(s) 37.9% Cain Velasquez 18
vote(s) 62.1% 1. imhungry4444 Well-Known Member Now that
UFC 155 is upon is, it got me thinking. What if Cain loses to
Junior?........If he loses a second time to Junior who has
already beat him once i dont see anything left for Cain at
heavyweight. He will probably move out of the way for Cormier to
come in and try his hand at the UFC heavyweight title. But what
will Cain do? the only and main viable option would be move down
to Light Heavyweight. I heard Cain walks around at about 240
lb., now that is a big cut but its really the only viable option
for Cain. Now, if Cain were to move down, I think he would
steam roll though the competition. This guy is a Terminator and
he would be just as lethal at LHW as he is at HW IMO. If Cain
does very well and Jones hasnt moved up yet as he said he would,
it could be poss |
3.020571 | 1.462962 | -1 | The young Ravenclaw girl sleeping at the table was stirred by
the rattling library windows. Luna rubbed her eyes, and stood
up. I must have fallen asleep, she thought as she collected her
books. It must be nearly midnight. Luna strolled down the dark
hallway toward her common room when she heard a noise. She
stopped and looked back into the shadows. Her fingers slipped
into her pocket and grabbed a large red rock. She'd thought it
looked interesting when she'd picked it up. Now she was glad she
had. Luna held the rock tightly and moved forward one step. A
shuffle of feet was heard as though someone was standing up.
"Ow!" a voice yelped, and a thud came as the person fell back to
the ground. Luna looked back to her hand to find that the rock
was no longer in it. Oops. "Lumos," the blond girl muttered,
and the shape of Neville Longbottom was illuminated on the
floor. "What are you doing?" Luna asked with a curious glint in
her eye. "I forgot the password. Everyone else is asleep, so no
one is here to let |
-0.031786 | -1.188716 | -1 | You are hereBlogs / Stephen Lendman's blog / Obama Plans One of
History's Great Crimes Obama Plans One of History's Great
Crimes By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 07 September 2013 Obama
Plans One of History's Great Crimes by Stephen Lendman US
history is ugly. It's disturbing. It's ruthless. It's
deplorable. No nation ever matched it. None came close. Crimes
of war, against humanity and genocide define it. Terror bombing
is official US policy. Permanent wars cause mass killing and
destruction. One nation after another is ravaged and
destroyed. The late Studs Terkel (1912 - 2008) once said America
views things through the prism of war. "(T)wisted (logic)
encourages (US officials) to be willing, almost eager, to use
military force," he said. Wars aren't just, he stressed. They're
"lunatic" acts. They reflect madness. They're horrific by any
standard. They're unjustifiable. Terror bombings are worst of
all. During WW II, Dresden was mercilessly firebombed. It was
defenseless. It was of no military |
-1.367131 | 6.049592 | -1 | • The Hollywood Reporter on LinkedIn • Follow THR on Pinterest
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Everything Store" spills the inside secrets of the e-commerce
giant and its founder. Brad Stone's deep-dish book The
Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, is a must-
read -- as essential as Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs is for
understanding Apple. The story of the giant e-tailer is packed
with eyebrow-raising tales from 300 sources. Here are 10 things
you may not know about the billionaire and his company: STORY:
Does CBS and Amazon's 'Under the Dome' Deal Hurt Cable? 1.
Amazon's early name was "Relentless.com." Try typing
"Relentless.com" and see where it takes you. 2. Amazon spends
$1.6 million a year on personal security for Bezos and his
family. Yet his wife, MacKenzie, a respected novelist, still
drives him to work in their Honda after dr |
1.292429 | 2.204018 | 40 | ATP! Presents: Cassadee's Corner (November 2012) Our very own
in-house guidance counselor Cassadee Pope is back, with her
latest monthly installment of "Cassadee's Corner". Each month,
Cassadee will be answering questions and offering advice about
school, relationships, breaking into music..you name it! If you
have anything on your mind that you would like to ask Cassadee,
drop her an e-mail at [email protected] with the
subject title "Cassadee's Corner" and your question might be
featured in next month's column! How does it feel to be on The
Voice? There are no words to describe it. I feel like I'm
watching myself in a dream. To know I've made it this far by
just being myself makes my heart warm. I'm extremely happy! Two
of my friends and I fight medical depression. So we are
wondering what you like to do when life gets you down. I'm so
sorry to hear that. I always feel so unqualified to try and give
advice about depression, well because I am. I hope you are
getting the professional help that |
3.309735 | 2.814919 | -1 | tagCelebritiesStar Trek: Lineage Ch. 06 Star Trek: Lineage Ch.
06 But A Walking Shadow 2301, Deck 7, Main Transporter, 1000
hours "No. No, I can't do this!" Casana squealed and turned to
run, but was blocked by Sahar and Suvak. "Yes, you can," Sahar
reassured her, turning her around. "I can't. Danny will find
out about Shen," she whispered nervously, despite being alone
with the two of them in the corridor. "Lieutenant Commander
Ben-David is already aware of the symbiont," Suvak explained.
"What?!" Casana cried, looking with horror at Suvak. "It was
necessary to inform him in order to maintain your secret."
"He'll alter the transporter records after beaming to hide the
symbiont," Sahar said calmingly. Casana took a deep breath and
nodded her consent. Slowly, they coaxed her into the transporter
room, but as soon as the door opened and she saw the pad, Casana
again tried to run. "Transporter room, Bridge, what's taking so
long?" asked Lieutenant Commander Osuna over the intercom.
"Some minor techn |
0.345886 | -1.645445 | -1 | NewsApp (Free) Read news as it happens Download NewsApp
Available on Rediff News All News » News » India looks
beyond Tehran in the Gulf India looks beyond Tehran in the Gulf
March 17, 2010 16:17 IST With his visit to Saudi Arabia, Dr
Singh has re-emphasised that when it comes to the Gulf, Iran
will not be the focus of Indian foreign policy, writes Harsh V
Pant. Prime Minster Manmohan Singh visited Saudi Arabia earlier
this month after a gap of 28 years and promptly elevated the
Indo-Saudi relationship to a 'strategic partnership'. In the
last few years India's policy toward the Gulf region has often
been viewed through the prism of India-Iran relations. The
international community and the West in particular has been
obsessed with New Delhi's ties with Tehran and has tended to
ignore India's much more substantive engagement with the Arab
Gulf states. Notwithstanding all the hype surrounding India's
ties with Iran, they remain largely under-developed even as the
significant stakes that India has in |
0.949908 | 4.040964 | 29 | Inclusion in local school auction Tonight (4/8/11) is a
fundraising gala put on by the Magellan International School,
located in Austin, TX. As part of the fundraiser, they are
holding a silent auction and a live auction. My pet portrait
services are being grouped with other pet-related items/services
in the live auction. I've donated my services to paint a 14"x18"
portrait for the winner of that bid. I look forward to meeting
the bid winner and their pet. :) Arran Walker said... As of
6/10/11 I have yet to hear from this winner. I sure hope they
contact me soon :) Arran Walker said... As of 2/15/13 there
has been no contact from the winner of the auction. I think they
either didn't know a painting came with the basket they bid
on... or they just wanted to make the donation but don't want a
painting. Either way... sigh! :( |
0.668925 | 9.623897 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × I recently started learning Clojure
and I'm having a bit of difficulty wrapping my head around
namespaces. As the creator of Clojure said, newcomers often
struggle to get the concept right. I don't clearly understand
the difference between (use ...) and (require ...). For example
playing around in the REPL if I say (use 'clojure.contrib.str-
utils2) I get warnings about functions in clojure.core namespace
being replaced by the ones in clojure.contrib.str-utils2, but
that doesn't happen when I use (require 'clojure.contrib.str-
utils2). I'm not sure that I will always want to replace what's
in clojure.core, so can someone point some best practices for
importing external stuff and managing namespaces in Clojure? Oh
and also, when should I use :use and :require? Only inside (ns
....)? Thanks in advance. share|improve this question possible
duplicate of difference between use and require – om-nom-nom
Feb 26 '13 at 15:53 add comment 1 Answer up vote 35 down vote
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1.130329 | 8.693536 | -1 | Documentation Center • Trials • Product Updates Choosing a
Graphics Format What Are Graphic Formats? A graphics file
format is a specification for storing and organizing data in a
file. MATLAB® support exists for many different graphics file
formats. Some are built-in and others are Ghostscript formats.
File formats also differ in color support, graphics style
(bitmap or vector), and bit depth. This section provides
information to help you decide which graphics format to use when
exporting your figure to a file or to the Windows® clipboard. It
covers Before deciding on a graphics format, check what formats
are supported by your target application and platform. See the
print reference page for a complete list of supported MATLAB
graphics formats. Once you decide on which format to use in
exporting your figure, follow the instructions in Exporting to a
File or Exporting to the Windows or Macintosh Clipboard.
Frequently Used Graphics Formats Here are some of the more
frequently used graphics formats. |
-1.370543 | 3.800155 | 11 | Making Boston Green Mayor Thomas Menino lays out an innovative
new program July 19, 2013 RSS Feed Print Cyclists aboard rental
bicycles depart City Hall Plaza in Boston. Cyclists aboard
rental bicycles depart City Hall Plaza in Boston. While climate
change policies are taking center stage in Washington, the city
of Boston is implementing its own unique approach to reducing
its carbon footprint. In May, Mayor Thomas Menino launched
Greenovate Boston, the first program of its kind in the nation.
Menino recently spoke with U.S. News about Greenovate's mission
and challenges, how he plans to get Bostonians involved, and
what he has changed in his own life to set an example. Excerpts:
What is Greenovate Boston? It stems from a 2011 climate action
plan, which had aggressive measures toward reducing global
climate change. The goal was to reduce Boston's carbon footprint
by 25 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050. We have some
programs in place on that: housing weatherization programs, the
Hubway bike-share p |
-3.786331 | 3.321294 | 39 | Back to Medical Articles List Patent Foramen Ovale - Is It
Important to Divers? Bookmark and Share By Dr. Alfred A. Bové
and Dr. Richard E. Moon What is a PFO? The upper chambers of
the heart (the atria) are separated into a right chamber that
conveys blood from the veins to the right ventricle, then to the
lungs, and a left atrium that conveys blood from the lungs to
the left ventricle and then to the whole body. In the unborn
fetus, the lungs are not functioning, and to provide oxygen to
the fetal circulation, an opening is present (the foramen ovale)
in the wall between the two atria (the atrial septum). The
foramen ovale allows blood coming from the placenta to flow
through the right atrium directly into the left atrium and then
into the body, providing the oxygen needed for growth and
development. At birth, when the baby begins to breathe, a flap
valve closes over the opening in the atrial septum and
eventually becomes part of the atrial septum from growth of
tissue sealing the opening. However, i |
-0.464008 | 7.840024 | -1 | Thread beginning with comment 547010 To view parent comment,
click here. RE[8]: Not particularly... by gfolkert on Thu 3rd
Jan 2013 06:29 UTC in reply to "RE[7]: Not particularly..."
Member since: Okay. This has ceased to be productive. You
don't have anything you can comment on? Wow, considering you've
commented on anything and everything anyone said here, its
ceased being productive in my eyes a long time ago since you are
being very clue resistant. But I ALWAYS try to help. Reply
Parent Score: 1 RE[9]: Not particularly... by Nelson on Thu 3rd
Jan 2013 06:39 in reply to "RE[8]: Not particularly..." Nelson
Member since: No, I'm not here to go on long side arguments
with you over nothing. This has gotten so far from the original
point its lost meaning. You literally have an entire comment,
and it says nothing that you haven't said before, and only
serves to get off topic. I'm not here to argue Windows Phone 7,
Windows 8, or Windows RT with you. In my mind, these are things
I have moved passed trying |
4.053376 | -2.743538 | -1 | Reports | January 08, 2009 19:32 Is cheating always newsworthy?
HandheldAs various blogs have already reported, a 14-year-old
chess player from Australia has been caught cheating while
playing a game of chess. It immediately led to a debate among
the ChessVibes editors: is it newsworthy? At the current The
Norths Chess Club Centenary Year Under 1600 Tournament, a side
event to the Australian Open Championships in Sydney, yesterday
a player was caught using what the arbiter called a "hand held
machine" in the toilets. The game was declared lost and the boy
was expelled from the tournament. The 14-year old was using the
program ChessMaster on a Playstation Portable, and that was
probably the reason why the moves were not particularly strong:
It's the first example of a chess player getting caught while
using an electronic device in Australia, and so it quickly
became a big story in the relatively small Australian chess
community. It was mentioned at The Closet Grandmaster (who
posted the game notation give |
-1.112199 | 2.682483 | -1 | Printer-friendly version Following a humanitarian crisis,
humanitarian actors in the field can immediately provide life-
saving assistance using pooled funds managed by the United
Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA). There are three types of pooled funds: CERF, Common
Humanitarian Funds (CHFs) and Emergency Response Funds (ERFs).
While CERF can cover all countries affected by an emergency,
CHFs and ERFs are country-based pooled funds that respond to
specific humanitarian situations in currently 18 countries. The
pooled funds enable humanitarian organizations to provide the
most urgently needed assistance following a natural disaster;
fill critical gaps in the response in countries with large, on-
going humanitarian operations; and provide basic life
necessities for people struggling to survive in many of the
world's forgotten emergencies. Since these funds were created,
billions of dollars have been disbursed to help millions of
people in dire need of assistance in 88 countries |
1.500594 | 5.24781 | 82 | Skip to navigation | Skip to content Kepler spots most Earth-
like planet yet Kepler62 water world The most Earth like
planets ever found may be water worlds according to scientists
(Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ) Water
worlds? Astronomers have detected the most Earth-like planet
that has the potential to support water yet found by NASA's
Kepler Space Telescope. The planet, known as Kepler 62f, is one
of five new planets discovered orbiting a star in the
constellation of Lyra. Kepler 62f is likely to be a terrestrial
planet about 40 per cent bigger than Earth, orbiting in the
star's habitable zone -- the area that allows liquid water to
exist, the astronomers report in the journal Science. "We're
very excited because this has a good chance of being a rocky
planet and potentially having the right surface temperatures to
support liquid water," says Associate Professor Eric Agol, of
the University of Washington, one of the paper's authors. The
planet receives about half as much heat |
2.842005 | 1.55933 | 19 | "I don't think this is a good idea," Jasmine stepped through the
door. "What if there's some hobo living in here?" "Oh come on,
Jaz. Who cares?" Mike pushed a few pieces of framing from their
path. "We'll scare him before he can scare us. Besides, you're
tired of the 'same old-same old, aren't you? You should really
make up your mind. I mean -" "Just because I think this place
is a bit creepy doesn't mean I'm gonna chicken out." She tip-
toed across a hole in the floor, watching as he handled the
wooden beams. "I just don't like the idea of coming across
weirdos in the middle of the night. We're here, aren't we? If I
was gonna change my mind, I would have stayed home." "Alright,
I get it." Mike thought of the rumors she had told him about.
The looters who nearly died of fright, people last seen here now
missing. She had some crazy ideas, but what the hell, right?
Maybe she'd finally get that 'supernatural experience' she
always talked about. "I was just teasing anyway." Around a
corner a tattered staircase |
3.525997 | -2.258304 | 87 | Last Race: 24th Nov Brazil Brazil GP Results Pos Driver 1
Sebastian Vettel 2 Mark Webber 3 Fernando Alonso German GP:
Faultless Lewis Wins In Germany Sunday 24th July 2011 German
GP: Faultless Lewis Wins In Germany German GP: Faultless Lewis
Wins In Germany Lewis Hamilton claimed his second race win of
the season as McLaren took advantage of the cold conditions at
the Nurburgring. Starting second on the grid the Briton drove a
near-perfect race that included an audacious overtaking move
around the outside of Fernando Alonso. Mark Webber yet again
failed to convert pole position into a win, coming home third
behind Alonso and in front of team-mate Sebastian Vettel. Race
Report It was cold and damp at the Nurburgring with drops of
rain falling as the cars assembled on the grid. The biggest
problem for the drivers was getting heat into the front tyres
with an ambient of just 13C and the track at 15C. Sebastian
Buemi had been moved to the back of the grid after the stewards
found an irregularity in fuel |
-0.154017 | 7.35041 | 8 | Apple Hires Away Top Samsung CPU Designer to Build Custom Apple
Chips Apple just took a big step toward upping its chip-making
game, and took a big swipe at Samsung in the process. According
to the Wall Street Journal, Cupertino's hired away Jim Mergard,
a well respected and vastly experienced engineer, from the
Korean company. The move is a big deal for a few reasons.
First, it signifies Apple's commitment to designing its own
chips. Its A6 chip in the iPhone 5 was its first chip to use its
own custom core. While Apple had been using chips customized for
its products (the A4, A5, A5X, etc.), those were built on ARM's
architecture—the Cortex-A8 and A9. In simple terms, Apple had
been just tweaking things here and there with the blueprints,
but with the A6, it built the chip design from the ground up
using just ARM's reference designs, not its ready-made cores.
That is a very big deal in the world of chip design, and it's
what let Apple boost the A6's performance and battery life at
once. How does Mergard f |
-2.056364 | 3.199336 | -1 | Which tool do I need? (3 Posts) DawnOfTheDee Wed 24-Oct-12
10:26:13 Garden is v overgrown and messy - weeds in between
paving slabs, growing out from under hedge, etc, etc. Basically
every nook and cranny had something growing out of it. It's like
day of the triffids...(my back garden backs onto woodland for
info). Anyway I'd like to do a general basic tidy up and was
wondering what tool(s) to get. Would a strimmer type thing be ok
to go over the paved bit and chop down the weeds? I'm an
absolute beginner but just want to get the garden tidied up a
bit before winter. Any tips, suggestions would be much
appreciated. purplewithred Sun 28-Oct-12 16:35:28 You need a
helper, not a tool. Invest the money in a knowledgeable human
being and pick their brain mercilessly while you watch them use
their own tools on your jungle. DawnOfTheDee Mon 29-Oct-12
11:55:28 Well over the weekend BIL has donated a strimmer and a
hedgecutter which is good as money is tight at the moment. I
will definitely pick his brains ma |
-1.325833 | -1.140128 | 63 | Return to Transcripts main page Analyzing Obama's Media
Marathon Aired September 27, 2009 - 10:00 ET HOWARD KURTZ,
HOST: Presidents have been fed up, even furious about their
press coverage. And Spiro Agnew was fulminating about the
"nattering nabobs of negativity." Now Barack Obama has joined
this exclusive club. But hold on just one second. When Obama
went off on the fourth estate in his Sunday marathon last
weekend, did he strike a raw nerve? Can journalists really
defend what he described as the speed and superficiality of
today's fragmented media culture? Maybe, just maybe, the
president has a point. OBAMA: In this 24-hour news cycle, the
easiest way to get on CNN and -- or FOX or any of the other
stations, MSNBC, is to just say something rude and outrageous.
OBAMA: The easiest way to get 15 minutes on the news or your 15
minutes of fame is to be rude. KURTZ: But what exactly does
Obama mean by this phrase he repeats like a mantra, "the 24-hour
news cycle"? Well, it looks something like t |
2.095266 | -1.433783 | -1 | Email this article to a friend 'Does my bum look big in this?':
Pink's curves pour over her harness as she soars through the air
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1.384223 | 9.886955 | 22 | Take the 2-minute tour × Suppose I wanted to write down a list
of $p^2$, for $p$ a prime between $1$ and $20$. I would expect
Table[If[PrimeQ[k], k^2, Sequence[]], {k, 1, 20}] to work. In
fact, this produces, {Null, 4, 9, Null, 25, Null, 49, Null,
Null, Null, 121, Null, 169, Null, Null, Null, 289, Null, 361,
Null} Why does this happen, and is there a variant which does
work the way I expect? Of course, I can just do Map[(#^2) &,
Select[Range[20], PrimeQ]] I don't have a real reason to avoid
this, but it feels less readable to me. UPDATE: Given the
answers I'm seeing, I should point out that this is meant to be
a toy example and the actual code involves boolean functions
much messier than PrimeQ[], for which there is no analogue of
Prime[] available. But Szabolcs answer is exactly what I was
looking for, thanks! share|improve this question Just in case
you weren't already aware of the enhanced abilities of Table[]:
Table[k^2, {k, Select[Range[20], PrimeQ]}] also works well. –
Ｊ. Ｍ. Nov 13 '12 at 22: |
2.478831 | 2.024581 | -1 | Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 05:35:07 -0700 From: Ross Noskiye
Subject: Dear Diary Part 1 Disclaimer: If you are under 18 or
not of legal age in your country, please do not read on. If you
can't deal with homosexuals or their acts, please do not read
on. This story and its chapters involve acts of homosexual
relationships and their perks. If you find this material
offensive in anyway, please move on. Everything in this story is
purely FICTIONAL. I do not know the sexual preferences of any of
the members of N Sync or if any other celebrities should arise
at any point of the story, but can only hope *hehehe*. I also
would like to mention that I do not personally know any of the
members' family, friends, or staff of N Sync but once again, I
can only hope. From the Writer: Hey people. This is my 1st story
I've ever written like this, and naturally, it has to be about
my favorite group N Sync. I called it dear diary because its
something I like to do, and a lot of the critical thoughts and
feelings will be shared in thi |
3.259766 | 5.133951 | 2 | 64831884 visitors Show Posts Topics - Nyxojaele Pages: [1]
So I gave a bit of a hint about this project the other night on
#romhacking, but now that I'm a member of the forums, this shall
be my place to call SNEER's home~ Current download status:
v0.15 Available (as a viewer only) Nyxo's TODO List (in no
particular order...) • Entity Graphics • Editing of tiles
• Support for different sizes of rooms (more specifically, allow
each room to take a different amount of disk space) •
Dialogue/Text Editor • Audio Editor • Script/Entity AI
Editor Basically what the intention of this project is, is to
allow direct editing of the SotN map files from the CD. Each
zone is composed of 2 map files, XXX.BIN and F_XXX.BIN. (There's
other files too, but they're just audio stuff) F_XXX.BIN
contains the graphic for the tileset, and XXX.BIN contains
EVERYTHING ELSE. This includes, but is not limited to: • Map
layouts: Foreground layers, Background Layers, and Collision
Layers • Entity spawning code: A fun |
-2.452217 | 3.249777 | -1 | Propagate Plants Without Using Seeds! Time Required Very Long
(1+ months) Prerequisites None Material Availability Readily
available Cost Average ($50 - $100) Safety No issues Did you
know that apple trees do not "breed true"? This means that if
you plant seeds from an apple, say a Granny Smith, you will get
apple trees, but they will make apples that are actually
different than Granny Smiths. So how do farmers produce new
Granny Smith trees? They use a method called vegetative
propagation. For instance, they may cut a branch off of a tree
that grows Granny Smith apples and attach the branch onto a
different tree trunk. This method of making new trees is called
vegetative, or asexual propagation because the tree was not
produced by the usual mixing of pollen (male) and ovule (female)
to form a seed. In this plant biology science fair project, you
will investigate the factors that influence the success of
vegetative propagation, using the popular spider plant. The
objective of this plant biology science |
-1.177526 | 3.68763 | -1 | December 21, 2013 THE GEOPOLITICS OF GEOENGINEERING. “Keith is
steadfastly confident about the technical details. He says a
program to cool the planet with sulfate aerosols—solar
geoengineering—could probably begin by 2020, using a small fleet
of planes flying regular aerosol-spraying missions at high
altitudes. Since sunlight drives precipitation, could reducing
it lead to droughts? Not if geoengineering was used sparingly,
he concludes.” Do we have a plan to offset global cooling? |
3.54967 | 2.363096 | 5 | Edition: U.S. / Global THEATER REVIEW; Radiance, Rebellion and
Trust Published: May 2, 1999 CONSIDER a distressing question
facing the habitual theatergoer. Does a deadening production of
a great living play deserve to be called valiant, or even
ambitious, just because it's there? Athol Fugard's radiant
''Road to Mecca'' is rendered a disservice by the director Margo
Whitcomb in the pedestrian production at the Centenary Stage
Company here. The play concerns a glowing friendship -- and its
defining element, trust -- between Miss Helen, a radiant older
woman with the soul of an artist, and Elsa, a young
schoolteacher with a rebel's spirit. Miss Helen (Frances Peter)
is an apolitical character, unusual for a play Mr. Fugard wrote
during apartheid. Elsa (Kristin Ketterer) is not. Without two
impassioned performances, their first act confrontation can be
long-winded. In this production, which amounts to hardly more
than a flat recitation and is not quite up to the level of a
staged reading, it is unbearable, |
1.943879 | 1.614465 | -1 | I hadn't realised that they would be so heavy. There were only
three of them so Genesis was dragging the biggest one and I was
dragging the other two. I was starving by the time we got back
and the sun was beginning to consider thinking about coming up.
When we got to the base of the rock face Genesis stopped and
turned to me. "Question. How are we going to get these up
there?" That was a good question. "Umm, one of us climbs up,
the other ties the deer to the rope and then pushes it up while
the other pulls. If we can wake Sanjay it might make things
easier up there" "Okay, do you mind going up? My arms are so
weak, I don't know if I'll be able to pull myself up, let alone
these things" I nodded, dropped my deer and climbed up the
rope. My arms were sore too but I remember things in the jungle.
There was one time I held my body weight for hours. The sun had
moved so far across the sky. I was being attacked by a snake.
That is one of my most clear memories. Genesis had tied on the
smaller deer on to the |
4.171061 | 3.219712 | 5 | Ice Pirates is one of those movies that keeps on giving in all
the ways you want from an early-1980s B movie about, well, a
ship of sword-wielding pirates. The "ice" part is because they
steal frozen water in a universe of thirsty, resource-depleted
planets. I cannot do justice in words to the mind-blanking
whatever of this clip, where the captured pirates are
"processed" into gelded servants — and then rescued
surreptitiously by a shiny, disco princess. It's Ultra Reagan
Era, including a moment of pre-PC "race humor." But wait,
there's more! The flick features appearances from a strangely
hunky Ron "Hellboy" Perlman, and a seriously droolworthy silver-
bikini'd Angelica Huston looking very Siouxie Sioux. There are a
ton of gratuitous space sword fights, junior high sex humor
(yay!), an appropriately cheesy quest for the missing, watery
"lost planet," and (goofiest of all) the party scenes where
people "get high" by shooting themselves with electricity and
floating on the ceiling. You probably didn't realize t |
-1.486995 | 2.179911 | -1 | Click photo to enlarge A photo provided by the University of
Virginia Press shows the cover of "The Most Defiant Devil:
William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save
American Wildlife" (University of Virginia Press), by Gregory J.
Dehler. Irony alert: The man often credited with saving the
buffalo from extinction began his crusade by killing 20 of the
furry beasts. It had taken five weeks to find even a handful of
buffalo in Montana in the fall of 1886, their numbers down from
the millions to the hundreds after decades of unregulated
hunting for economic gain. William T. Hornaday wasn't seeking
meat or fur or even trophies—well, not exactly. He was the chief
taxidermist for the U.S. National Museum, a branch of the
Smithsonian Institution, and needed specimens. The hunt led
Hornaday to write a book decrying the buffalo's fate and to help
create preserves. His efforts, and those of others, kept the
buffalo roaming into the new century. Hornaday came to believe
that the extinction of the buff |
-0.18475 | -0.404921 | -1 | Eric Hobsbawm Eric Hobsbawm, historian, died on October 1st,
aged 95 See article Readers' comments To me, Marx was a
proponent of Communism, as it is seen by Communists, and not
Communist. Marx did not agree, perhaps, with what he saw, as the
cause why Communism would prevail. He obviously to me, perhaps
felt, that the cause, being undesirable, may not lead to an
effect which is desirable, because unpleasant causes lead to
unpleasant effects. The followers of the Communist movement,
have been feeling guilty that they live in a society which is
supposed to be the precursor to Communism. I am wrong, in a way,
because they may be thinking and feeling otherwise. Perhaps,
Communism is not wrong, but it seems, Marx was not a person who
saw humanity in a bad light. The society it seems, will give up
Communism, in the Communist agenda. Where was society wrong,
according to Marx, when he did think of this ultimate end? And,
where is the human right? Is Marx right, because Communism will
be obsolete? People wil |
0.412845 | 8.95262 | -1 | D. J. Bernstein Internet mail Frequently asked questions What
types of filesystems are safe for mail? Answer: qmail's queue,
except for bounce message contents, is crashproof on the BSD FFS
and most of its variants. Do not use async or softupdates
filesystems. If you do, and if your system crashes at the wrong
moment, you will lose mail. Under Linux, make sure that all
mail-handling filesystems are mounted sync. The same comments
apply to many other popular MTAs. (However, some MTAs are
unreliable no matter what filesystem you use.) It is safe to
put qmail's queue on a noatime filesystem. You may encounter
people who dispute one or more of the above statements. Those
people don't know what they're talking about. A rather
spectacular example appeared in February 2001, when someone
wrote hundreds of lines of text in a dozen messages claiming
that my FAQ was ``totally incorrect,'' claiming that the BSD FFS
wrote data to disk in the wrong order, claiming that the BSD FFS
was not crashproof, and claiming tha |
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-0.438279 | 10.344617 | -1 | Take the 2-minute tour × I'm trying to add an event to a Google
Calendar using the Google API V3. I'm not using any of Google's
libraries so I'm really baffled as to how to do this. Google's
documentation tells me that I need to send an "Events Resource"
in the request body. I think I've built a valid JSON "string"
but I have no idea how to properly prepare it and send it in the
so-called "request body". What confuses me is the way that
string values are wrapped in quotes and non-string values are
not. Does this mean that I'll need to wrap the entire thing as a
string and double/quadruple quote each double quote? Here's the
JSON I've written but I haven't figure out yet how to pass this
to Google so I haven't been able to test it: "kind":
"calendar#event", "start": { "dateTime": 04/10/2012 08:00
AM "end": { "attendees": [ "email":
"[email protected]", "displayName": "My Name",
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-2.201746 | 0.415248 | -1 | What are the worst jobs? The best? Take note: There is no
projected job growth for newspaper reporting, according to the
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wondered whether you have one of the worst or one of the best
jobs, is out with its annual list. In reviewing 200
professions, looked at work environment, stress and hiring
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Meter Reader 8. Mail Carrier 9. Roofer 10. Flight
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Software Engineer 4. Audiologist 5. Financial Planner 6.
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-2.404033 | 0.033972 | -1 | Photo Video Ohio budget could impact your wallet Abortion
provision added to Ohio budget Changes to Ohio budget will
likely affect women's right to choose, money for Planned
Parenthood Abortion restrictions, tax cuts included in Ohio
budget a a a a Share this story COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio
Legislature has approved a state budget that cuts personal
income taxes and adds new abortion restrictions. The new
budget, which will be sent to Gov. John Kasich to sign, also
revamps the state's school funding system. The Republican-led
Ohio House approved the $62 billion, two-year spending blueprint
Thursday by a vote 51-43, over the objections of Democrats. The
state Senate approved the bill earlier Thursday. Reaction to
the state's budget plan seems to depend on a person's political
affiliations. It's The Economy, Stupid Members of the GOP
argue the tax cuts will create new jobs, partially due to a cut
in the state's income tax. Kasich told Scripps sister station
WEWS in Cleveland that the budget will creat |
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recommended Roland Kayser Cottonwood Heights, UT I just have
one question, what does the first part of the second amendment
mean to the pro-gun absolutists? It seems that they thinks it is
just a little literary flourish which means absolutely nothing.
Someone please tell me. Bountiful, UT Well regulated means
well behaved. A father (for example) who defends his family
after a natural disaster from looters or is a militia of one. If
he is well behaved, i.e. obeys the law in doing this and acts
responsibly in all respects, then he is a well regulated militia
of one, (self regulated, but regulated nonetheless. Were he to
cooperate with neighbors in doing this, he would be part of a
neighborhood militia. Assuming they behave properly, they are a
well well regulated militia. lost in DC West Jordan, UT In the
context of the second amendment, “well regulated” means trained
and competent, not re |
3.633845 | -4.176681 | -1 | NBA Gets Bigger Presence in China Sina and NBA China have
expanded their existing partnership to provide fans in China
with unprecedented access to NBA content on multiple Sina
platforms. The enhanced partnership makes the NBA the first
U.S. professional sports league to offer specific destinations
for all 30 teams online and via mobile, a live game streamed
daily on mobile and original programming, and also includes the
launch of a new NBA online community. The NBA and Sina will
unveil an innovative online fan community on NBA Weibo providing
exclusive NBA content and benefits including new programming,
interactive games, merchandise, virtual items and special access
to NBA events. Additionally, SINA and the NBA will unveil
multi-platform original programming for fans, including a new
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-1.585777 | 8.973932 | -1 | Bumping Old Threads Discussion in 'Site Feedback and
Suggestions' started by SNGX1275, Jun 28, 2007. Post New Reply
1. SNGX1275 TS Special Forces Posts: 12,029 +146 I've
seen this breifly discussed somewhere before around here, but I
think it got glossed over compared to the other content in the
thread. But I was wondering if there is any sort of built
in function or hack to vB that can implemented that will inform
a user upon clicking reply (probably wouldn't work with quick
reply, but might if they quote..) if the last post is more than
a year old? I'll admit it is a bit amusing sometimes to see
someone bump a thread up and then watch people get into an
argument/discussion about something that hasn't been talked
about in 3 years, but after the amusement wears off I don't like
seeing it. Just today I saw a 1 year and 2 month old thread get
resurrected and 3 replies have happened and nobody has realized
that the original poster likely doesn't care anymore. I know
sometimes having new in |
-3.881755 | 3.917814 | -1 | Meet the Inventor Susan Magdaleno is a Senior Staff Scientist
in the research and development department at Ambion, which is a
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interest, i.e. cleaved other mRNAs with partial sequence
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5.061249 | 0.94252 | 13 | Photos by Marco Torres Pat Kelly (L) plays keyboards with The
Suffers at the 2012 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase Pat
Kelly is a lifelong Houston musician and the driving force
behind the Suffers, whose irresistible blend of R&B, ska, reggae
and rocksteady has made them the reigning HPMA Best New Act.
They're multiple nominees again this year in Best
Reggae/Ska/Dub, Best Female Vocals for singer Kam Franklin, and
himself for Best Keyboards. Kelly, who started on piano at age
6, started in the local music scene at 17 and has spent time in
Half Loaded, soundpatrol, Los Skarnales, the Igents, The
Stingers ATX, and the The Handsomes. He still plays drums in the
Theater Under the Stars Orchestra throughout the year at Hobby
Center, but the Suffers is Kelly's first band where he's played
keyboards. "I decided that it was way easier to be creative in
a band situation for me from a keyboard rather than be sort of
stuck behind a kit," he says. "I'm lucky that I have a group of
friends and musicians that let m |
0.4714 | 2.872783 | -1 | Learning to Teach to Read I've wrapped up my interviews and now
am on to editing! However, the weekdays have been pretty busy so
I will probably do most my editing this weekend. I anticipate
the introductory movie will be about 4-5 minutes long. Though
I'm fearful to work with the sound of the footage since we
didn't have quiet spots to interview. But we'll see... No matter
what, I'm excited to sit down and make a lot of progress on the
video so that I can get a better idea of the specific things I
need to fill certain empty spots of the interviews (e.g. photos
of the new relocation sight while Marta speaks about Semillero's
current need to relocate.) But, so far so good! I anticipate
next week's post to have a solid rough cut of the video. And I'm
very excited to show the kids, since they've been joking about
their celebrity status once the video goes live on the internet!
Now, to address the title of this post... At the end of last
week Marta pulled me aside to discuss the struggles of the
younger student |
-1.759119 | 0.117674 | -1 | • Mon • Dec 9, 2013 • Updated: 2:21am Tobacco tax increase
must not be voted down PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 27 April, 2011,
12:00am UPDATED : Tuesday, 14 August, 2012, 8:46am On the day
Chief Secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen resumed the debate to
complete the budget's controversial journey through the
legislature, he pledged the administration will not become a
mere 'caretaker government' while it completes its term due to
end next year. If the promise is to be kept, officials must
first dig themselves out of the hole created by this year's
budget, which seems to get ever deeper. Taxing people, only to
give them back the cash, is not the soundest public finance
policy, although this has become the standard political response
to demands from the public whenever there is a big surplus. But
the latest twist in the budget saga could see the government
taxing smokers, only to then give some of those proceeds back to
the tobacco industry. This bizarre outcome could occur if
legislators vote down the tobacco tax in |
4.083463 | 3.072096 | 5 | Back Comments (8) Share: Facebook Button After a fifteen year
absence, Henry Oldfield returns to the farm where he was raised
in order to sell his share to his bullying older brother, Angus.
Henry originally departed the farm after the death of his father
and a particularly traumatising experience involving sheep,
which left him with an extreme case of ovinaphobia. What Henry
doesn't know is that in his absence Angus has been conducting
genetic experiments in an attempt to create the ‘perfect’ breed
of sheep—the Oldfield. Black Sheep Things take a turn for the
worse when a couple of well-meaning environmentalist hippies
break into the laboratory and steal one of the failed
experiments, which subsequently escapes and transforms all of
the sheep on the farm into zombies! It’s up to Henry, Maori
farmhand Tucker and female environmentalist Experience to save
the day—if they can survive long enough! At some point in my
childhood I happened across a late-night showing of an ultra-
gory, darkly comic zombie movie |
1.610004 | 3.243916 | -1 | Deodorant Advert Task Image for Deodorant Advert TaskNot
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-0.745011 | 1.61599 | -1 | How Do I? Click to Home Go To Search Hollywood’s Street Names
When the streets of Hollywood were being laid out in the early
1920s, it may have been the Engineering Department staff of the
Young Companies here or in Indianapolis who made the original
decisions to name east-west streets after U.S. presidents, and
who also named the east-west streets north of the presidents for
generals and others. Unfortunately, there is no documentation
for it. It is the streets south of Washington that there is a
story for. Anton C. "Tony" Mickelson had just finished two
hitches in the Navy (1915-20), when he returned to Indianapolis
in the Spring of 1920. He got a job with the Young Company there
(the Homeseekers Realty Co.), and came to Florida in 1920 as a
salesman for Joseph Young’s Miami developments, then became a
surveyor for the company in Hollywood. In 1924, sales were going
so well that Joseph Young decided to open up the South Hollywood
Addition. The maps were needed immediately so the salesmen could
have them t |
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3.262572 | 4.378777 | -1 | "Yeah, stop holding FF7 against this." Most people know the
story by now. Final Fantasy 7 was arguably the best game ever
made, and it vaulted Square to the status of industry titan.
Fans wanted more from them and fast, so under the pressure
Square pulled out every stop in making Final Fantasy 8. Final
Fantasy 8... was goofy. It's not a bad game by any stretch, but
it has the feel of Square trying to do way too much and falling
flat in spots. The elephant in the room -- the whole "please
forget Final Fantasy 7 exists when you play this" thing -- is
also very obvious. But if you're willing to look past a few
things, FF8 stands alone as a pretty good game. Final Fantasy
8 has an odd cast, and most of the characters aren't very good.
There's really no sugarcoating this. The main character,
Squall, starts the game off as an emo loner who basically tells
everyone around him to screw off. He eventually meets a girl he
likes, Rinoa, and spends more time ignoring people until he
finally decides to man up and do w |
-2.231223 | -0.456961 | -1 | Switch to Desktop Site Obama launches new push for US jobs,
tapping GE's Immelt to help The economy is 'not growing fast
enough yet,' Obama acknowledged Friday, speaking to GE workers
in Schenectady, N.Y. Will GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, prove to be
his guide to building a more competitive America? President
Barack Obama and GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt visit the birthplace of
the General Electric Co., in Schenectady, N.Y., to showcase a
new GE deal with India and to announce a restructured
presidential advisory board Friday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP/File
About these ads President Obama on Friday called for a new
effort to put the economy into job-creation "overdrive," naming
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head an advisory panel on
the issue. Neither the president nor Mr. Immelt can claim to
hold any magic formula for jobs, but the move does appear to
bolster one key White House goal: mending frayed relations with
corporate America. The selection of Immelt, one of America's
most prominent chief executiv |
-0.63384 | 7.916978 | -1 | The SIP protocol is an Application Layer protocol designed to be
independent of the underlying Transport Layer; it can run on
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol
(UDP), or Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). It is a
text-based protocol, incorporating many elements of the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP). SIP protocol can be used for creating,
modifying and terminating two-party (unicast) or multiparty
(multicast) sessions. Sessions may consist of one or several
media streams. Other SIP applications include video
conferencing, streaming multimedia distribution, instant
messaging, presence information, file transfer and online games.
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0.172694 | 6.942332 | -1 | Building a Better Wi-Fi Audio System Challenge accepted.
I'll present some options for those looking to add the
flexibility of a Wi-Fi audio system, but who don't want to
sacrifice too much sound quality to do it. I'm not talking about
just plugging in your iPod analog. I'm talking about complete
access to your iTunes library, on whatever computer it may live.
Most AirPlay-enabled iPod docks are priced in the $500-$700
range (iHome's iW1 is a relative bargain at $299, but it doesn't
offer a lot of horsepower), so that was my target. No list like
this could be comprehensive, but it should give you some
excellent ideas, and an place from which to start looking. The
Stream First, you need to figure out the "wireless" part of the
equation. You can put together an audio system to accept a
signal - digital or analog -from just about any source, and
there are plenty of music streaming devices on the market, from
the Logitech Squeezbox to a whole range of more esoteric network
players. but if the idea is to mim |
-0.615057 | 7.202243 | 8 | The App Store Is About to Get a Major Makeover There are
countless search systems floating around the web, but it has
just been announced that Apple has purchased the app search
company Chomp. This isn't a normal Apple takeover though; it
looks like Apple has serious plans for the expertise it just
purchased for $50 million. According to 9to5mac, the staff of
Chomp are becoming well and truly intertwined with Apple, with
its CEO and CTO both assuming fairly senior positions. Why? The
current thinking is that Apple's App Store has become unwieldy.
With over 500,000 apps, it's probably in need of a technical
overhaul—and it makes sense to buy a start-up that's been
performing so well that it already has an exclusive deal with
Verizon to power all of its Android-based app searches. Expect
some big changes at the iOS app store real soon. [TechCrunch and
9to5mac] |
0.646259 | 9.6253 | 16 | Take the 2-minute tour × Recently I bumped into a situation
where a static code analysis tool (PMD) complainted about a
switch statement that had too few branches. It suggested turning
it into an if statement, that I did not wanted to do because I
knew that soon more cases will be added. But I wondered if the
javac performs such an optimization or not. I decompiled the
code using JAD but it showed still a switch. Is it possible that
this is optimized runtime by the JIT? Update: Please do not be
misleaded by the context of my question. I'm not asking about
PMD, I'm not asking about the need for micro-optimisation, etc.
The question is clearly only this: does the current (Oracle
1.6.x) JVM implementation contain a JIT that deals with switches
with too few branches or not. share|improve this question I
thought PMD has nothing to do with JIT? – gefei Sep 12 '12 at
11:30 Of course it doesn't. The question was not that.. – jabal
Sep 12 '12 at 11:51 add comment 4 Answers up vote 1 down vote
accepted If you c |
-0.427266 | 7.058926 | -1 | Linked by alcibiades on Tue 30th May 2006 20:40 UTC Permalink
for comment 129438 Member since: Pundits foam at the mouth
telling everyone that Apple should compete on the same terms as
a software company with virtually no overhead whose primary
markets are hardware manufacturers and corporate customers.
I've made no complaint about Apple's business model for selling
computers. It's not a scalable model, but it's worked well
enough keep Apple in business servicing a small but not
insignificant niche. What I fail to hear from anyone predicting
iTMS' demise is the exact mechanics of it happening As I've
stated elsewhere, under the assumption that DRM protected media,
whether distributed online or on a physical medium, will
eventually grow to replace the current model of unprotected
media distributed on CDs, were Apple to continue to dominate the
market for DRM media to the same extent they currently do, it
would result in an Apple monopoly occupying the role currently
played by every record store and every m |
3.686781 | -4.639914 | 12 | Michael Malone wants defensive players, so who is available?
Mary Langenfeld-US PRESSWIRE Michael Malone says he's only
going to play guys that play defense but the problem is he
doesn't have many good defensive players. With the trade
deadline coming up, who is available that does? Another loss,
another terrible defensive effort and Michael Malone made his
displeasure clear: From the Bee: "I've been a hypocrite all
year," Malone said. "I preach defense, that's what I believe in
and we're one of the worst defensive teams in the league. So for
me, if you don't play defense, it's not just Marcus Thornton, if
you don't play defense I can't play you." I definitely
understand Coach's frustration. The Kings are currently dead
last in the NBA in defensive rating at 109.6 following
yesterday's loss. Before DeMarcus Cousins' injury, they were
26th, which was still bad. The thing is, the Kings definitely
have guys who try on defense, but they don't have many guys who
are actually good on defense. Defense is m |
4.069244 | 2.273263 | 5 | ‘Breaking Bad’s’ Latest Episode, “Confessions,” Epitomizes the
Show’s Highs and Lows Sunday night’s episode of ‘Breaking Bad,’
entitled “Confessions,” contains a fascinating reveal—and a
disappointing one. Andrew Romano on how this episode is a
perfect example of why the show may not be considered the
greatest ever (hint: spoiler alert). Now that the end of
Breaking Bad is finally in sight—only five episodes left—it
seems like an appropriate time to start asking the big question.
We can all agree—and by “we" I mean “sane human beings with even
the slightest modicum of taste”—that Vince Gilligan's potboiling
meth saga is a great show. In fact, it's probably the finest
series on television right now. But is it one of the Greatest
Shows Ever? The question occurred to me Sunday night as the
credits rolled on the third episode of the final half-season.
The previous 54 minutes of high drama seemed like a particularly
vivid illustration of what makes Breaking Bad so great—and, at
the same time, what may ultimat |
-0.689419 | 0.170888 | 6 | The state attorney's office will re-try Geralyn Graham for the
murder of missing 4-year-old foster child Rilya Wilson.
Prosecutors made the announcement in court Friday. "Will you be
able to find a jury in Miami-Dade County?" Circuit Court Judge
Marisa Tinkler Mendez asked prosecutor Sally Weintraub. "I have
no idea," Weintraub responded. In January, prosecutors lauded
Graham's convictions for abusing and kidnapping Rilya as well as
the 55 year prison sentence she received. On Friday, they hinted
justice is incomplete without a conviction for murder.
"Obviously it's doable. The jury was very close to convicting
her. In fact, they came back in three and a half hours and were
ready to convict except for the one juror," Weintraub told Local
10's Glenna Milberg. The first jury took three weeks to pick
from a pool of 300 potential jurors for one of the most well-
known child disappearance cases in South Florida history. With
no remains or physical evidence of Rilya, case of murder rested
with the stories of |
-1.836442 | 5.184202 | -1 | The Deal: JetBlue's Prospects Take Off Tickers in this article:
JBLU NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- JetBlue Airways is a popular
choice among investors hoping to capitalize on regulators
playing hardball with merger partners AMR Corp. and US Airways .
There's logic to that strategy, but the wager is still a long
shot to pay off. The Department of Justice stunned markets Aug.
13 by filing a lawsuit seeking to block the proposed $11 billion
union of US Airways and the parent of American Airlines Inc. In
the days since, some strategists have floated discounters
including JetBlue as possible beneficiaries from the regulatory
spat, noting that Justice's decision to block AT&T from
acquiring T-Mobile USA set off a wave of second-tier
consolidation in the telecom business. The case for JetBlue is
particularly appealing, as the New York-based airline could
benefit regardless of whether the US Airways-AMR deal is
ultimately approved. Should the DOJ and the airlines eventually
settle, as many expect, JetBlue would be at |
-0.70075 | 0.851155 | 6 | A special place in Hell... I'm of the opinion that our legal
system is not flexible enough. For instance, stealing
bronze/copper head stones and vases from a cemetery is
exponentially worse in my mind than stealing a roll of copper
wire that county workers leave at the job site when they go to
lunch. Case in point:stealing $220 from a Camp Fire Girl is
worse than stealing money from an FDIC insured financial
institution. Truthfully, I'm kind of surprised this doesn't
happen more often...there were times my wife and kids had much
more money than this after a cookie sale outside of Wal-Mart,
and while my wife has her carry permit, I have to think you
average cookie sale is a 'soft target'. I just hope the
security cameras give them something to work with...while I am
greatly angered by this type of activity, I don't know how much
time the Spokane Police have to dedicate to a crime like this.
1 comment: 1. No one has respect for anything any more,
others property, hard work, or the law. Makes |
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Marc Graboff on Updating 'Idol,' How He'd Help NBC and Paying
'Friends' Cast With Private Planes (Q&A) Marc Graboff had a
front-row seat for negotiations that brought Survivor to CBS,
kept the Friends cast on NBC and moved Jay Leno from 11:35 p.m.
to 10 p.m. (and back). Now, one of TV's most respected
dealmakers is leading Core Media Group, best known as the parent
company of Fox's American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance.
In his nearly 2-year-old role as president, Graboff, 57,
oversees about 500 employees globally, plus a varied -- and
expanding -- portfolio of businesses ranging from a music
management company (19 Entertainment) to a production company
(Doomsday Preppers' Sharp Entertainment) to publicity rights for
Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presley. (Those brands represent 20
percent of Core's business, but he reveals he is seeking a
strategic buyer as the company hones its focus on content.) For
Graboff, the first employee in the CAA |
-2.031833 | -0.937413 | 10 | By Andy Metzger Statehouse News Service BOSTON -- While the
two major parties gear up for the U.S. Senate special election
between Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democratic Congressman Ed
Markey, a third, little-known candidate will also appear on the
June 25 ballot. Richard Heos, a Woburn man aligned with the
Twelve Visions Party, paid a signature gatherer out of his own
pocket, he told the News Service, and has qualified for the
ballot. Heos said he assembled 11,000 nomination signatures.
"We're a brand-new political party," said Heos, 66, adding he is
a disabled Navy veteran who officiates high school football,
basketball and baseball games. The Twelve Visions Party formed
in 2009, in Chicago, and Heos said the aim is to elect a
president who would hone the focus of the federal government, so
that it has "a protection-only budget. No entitlement programs,
just to protect the borders and the people of the United States
of America." Heos said his past political experience includes
working with former U.S |
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to pool – no real problems. I then rode 15km from Marion
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he drives half in the bike lane. Why can’t we have proper bike
lanes in Adelaide? I complained to Adelaide Metro (no response)
and to Southlink - I was told it would be investigated. Views:
800 Reply to This Replies to This Discussion As always -
cycle like you are invisible - hate to be paranoid but it has
saved me many a times. Why can't we have the present road
rules enforced? I would agree that relying on someone else to
keep you safe may not be a good strategy. It would be
interesting to know what the police need from a video to pursue
prosecuting people. considering your route would it be shorter
to use part of the green way and then Winston / East Ave. to the
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